Organizing for Literacy

For this week's readings I read Allington's Ch. 12 and the article by Pinnell. Both of these readings emphasize providing reading opportunities throughout the entire day. It is better to have several opportunities throughout the day to work on reading skills versus having a mini lesson or guided reading groups. Reading in connected to every school subject and the kids don't even know they are practicing their reading skills. Both readings also emphasize that before starting an actual lesson it is important to ease the students into it and letting them get a good start to their day. I think activities such as teacher read alouds and writing centers are a great way to gain some literacy knowledge. It is also important to discuss things and have a lot of oral activities to help students with their literacy skills. I thought both of these readings provided great ideas for my future classroom.